News & Announcements

Acton Optics & Coatings has redesigned a portion of its suburban Boston manufacturing facility specifically in order to enhance and expand the production and processing of two proprietary UV-conversion coatings, Metachrome and Unichrome. These highly popular, field-proven composite phosphor coatings provide scientists and engineers a cost-effective way to improve the ultraviolet detection capabilities of CCDs, CIDs, and CMOS sensors.

Princeton Instruments is pleased to announce that the Acton Optics & Coatings product line has provided a number of critical optical coatings in use in the recently launched NASA IRIS Explorer Mission via contracts with Lockheed Martin and major partners Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Montana State University.